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Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
Been using grid for years, felt like I knew all I needed to, then Kevin Powell blew my mind:
https://youtu.be/c13gpBrnGEw?si=F8B3StTl20AzhmYw
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
… also, could we please collectively give up on ligatures in code fonts? I get it, they exist and it's a fun technology to abuse, but aesthetically they feel more like plastic air spoilers on cheap city cars, and they do make things less clear.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
My first reaction to https://monaspace.githubnext.com/ was "wow, shiny!" My second reaction was, wait, a font requiring some active support from an editor? It may be my lasting shell-shock from the 90s, but it immediately feels like yet another step in Microsoft's E³ strategy[1]. Just yet another reason for young impressionable devs to stick to GitHub and vscode. Yet another feature for competitors to catch up with[2].
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extinguish
[2]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
polalotta@mastodon.com.br ("Dé") wrote:
Lançamento em PDF do zine CÖSMOPÜNX n°2
Vasculhe nossa zineteca online e encontre-o...
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
alenacpp@hachyderm.io ("Elena Sagalaeva") wrote:
On the one hand, mathematics is an exact science, but on the other hand, it sometimes employs terms like "almost surely." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_surely #Math
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
The morning we had to leave, the sun finally came out. Cumbria.
Canon AE-1 Program
Kodak UltraMax 400
Helios 44M 58mm/2
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
riana@mastodon.lawprofs.org wrote:
When "Lo and Behold," Herzog's documentary about the Internet, came out in 2016, he did a screening at Stanford. Afterwards some undergrad crypto bro asked him for his opinion about Bitcoin. Herzog replied that he was anti-Bitcoin because he needs cash - untraceable, hard cash - to keep existing, as sometimes when making his films he needs to do crimes such as paying bribes to local officials. The entire auditorium went silent. Still the most effective way to shut up a crypto bro I've ever seen
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:
Happy Birthday to Carl Sagan, who would be 89 today.
Sagan famously wrote about the 'Pale Blue Dot' - "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."
Voyager 1 took the image of the "Pale Blue Dot" on Feb 14, 1990, from 6 bil km away, minutes before its cameras were shut off forever.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia23645-pale-blue-dot-revisited
#palebluedot #Voyager #Sagan
5/n
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
Signal tests usernames so you can avoid sharing your phone number https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/9/23953603/signal-username-feature-test-phone-numbers-privacy-security-pre-beta-2024-launch?utm_content=buffer80076&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
yvanspijk@toot.community ("Yoïn van Spijk") wrote:
'Lord' stems from Proto-Germanic *hlaibawardaz: "bread guardian".
This compound consists of two words:
- *hlaibaz, the ancestor of 'loaf'.
- *wardaz, which meant "guardian" and became English 'ward'.Hear how over the course of 2500 years, its four syllables turned into one:
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
vanellopemint@mastodon.art ("🦋ShouldbeWriting🦋") wrote:
A dark knight rode into town. In a low, growling voice he said, "I seek the temple of puppies."
"You seek the Temple of Mikrós," said the townsfolk. "Mikrós is the god of Smol."
"God of... Small?" asked the knight.
"Smol," said the townsfolk. "It means all things tiny, cute, and cuddly."
"Yes," replied the knight. "I heard that their Holy Book is filled pictures of kittens, puppies, and bunnies. Verily I said to myself, this is the religion for me...."
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
BM_Visser@mastodon.energy ("Martien Visser") wrote:
In the Netherlands the average daily electricity price decreases by 1% point for every 1% increase of solar and wind in the Dutch electricity mix (horizontal axis). Extrapolation shows always a value close to zero at 100% solar and wind.
This 'Martien price law' has proven to be (more or less) correct since my first analysis of it in 2018.The (virtual) price at 0% solar and wind in the mix, left side of the graph, is alway close to two times the gas price.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org wrote:
#today in #1934 Carl Sagan born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
Pale Blue Dot: https://science.nasa.gov/resource/voyager-1s-pale-blue-dot/
Art by Chris Riddell
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- “What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." Image of a child reading a book by Chris Riddel (remote)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
scanlime@misc.name ("lime with barcode") wrote:
some naive networking greybeard once wrote that a good URL never changes, or something
but URLs do change because everything changes, and the expectations around their longevity and change are one place where people exert power and have power used over them.
if people rely on a URL they're actually relying on a stream of labor. There is no "static" content, all data storage requires some portion of ongoing renewal: new materials and ongoing human care.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
amoroso@fosstodon.org ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:
My $100 Raspberry Pi 400 has a spring loaded microSD card slot.
My $1,000 ASUS Chromebox 3 doesn't. To pry a card out of the slot I need tweezers or similar tools.
Guess which design team is passionate and pays attention to detail.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rust@octodon.social ("Rust tips"):
valentinegb@hachyderm.io ("Valentine Briese :transuwu:") wrote:
Little bit of a trick I discovered for documenting fields which are on multiple structures:
```rust
macro_rules! extensions_doc {
() => {
r#"The extensions properties are implemented as patterned fields that are always prefixed by `"x-"`."#
};
}pub struct Info {
// ...
#[doc = extensions_doc!()]
pub extensions: HashMap<String, Value>,
}
```
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
j3s@merveilles.town ("✨jes✨") wrote:
small websites are countercultural. self hosting is countercultural. web 1.0 is countercultural. user experiences that aren’t pillaged by advertisers are countercultural. a completed project is countercultural. a small, reliable tool is countercultural. independent maintenance is counter cultural. useless programs are countercultural. caring is counter cultural.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I want this flag.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/09/minnesotans-detest-our-state-flag/
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
marcoarment ("Marco Arment") wrote:
Got Thunderbolt Migration Assistant working!
Had to do half of this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253658404
- connect Thunderbolt cable to both
On source Mac:
- create Thunderbolt Bridge interface
- assign it a 10.0.0.x IP
- enable Internet Sharing from Wi-Fi to the Thunderbolt Bridge
- run Migration AssistantOn destination Mac, never set up Wi-Fi. It’ll activate over that Thunderbolt shared-internet connection and never ask for a Wi-Fi network.
(This used to be as easy as “connect them with a cable”.)
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:
Given that services revenue has gone from 9% to 25% of Apple's revenue and a big chunk of it is their 30% tax on in-app purchases, I expect they will drag their feet aa much as possible on supporting 3rd party app stores in Europe.
There's also a zero percent chance they will support this in any country where it isn't required by law. At least they've given up fighting it in Europe.
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
this has always been true, but especially now that we for some reason live in an era of shared screenshots of articles
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
i beg you: when you are "debunking talking points," do not print those talking points as bold headlines above your analysis
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Hey, Denyse, you horrifyingly stupid person, we know where the octopus fits in the evolutionary tree. Also, Klinghoffer -- you're an idiot.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/09/the-appalling-inanity-of-denyse-oleary/
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Mastodon FeedHow to tell you’re in England? Weather widget switches to minute-by-minute rain forecast ☔️#london
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
and why is our housepanther Oscar chewing on a jalapeno? #SMH
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
edward@indieweb.social ("Edward Loveall") wrote:
In light of the GitHub Universe announcements where they announce they are “re-founded on Copilot” allow me to re-present my blog post:
https://blog.edwardloveall.com/lets-make-sure-github-doesnt-become-the-only-option
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” — C.S. Lewis
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
flaki@flaki.social ("Flaki") wrote:
Perhaps I'm just "remarkably untalented" :shibathinking:
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/web-dev-untalented/ by the ever-eloquent @baldur (as opposed to that other guy the above sneed has happened to have spurted out onto the internet for all to see)
From the post:
> "most of software dev is pretty bad, [but web dev] is unique in degree: the web experience is so much worse, on average, and so much more dysfunctional than even the most mundane shitty native app that most people have access to"And the part that hit too close to home given my recent joust with the whiteboard interview crowd¹:
> “We need to base our app on React because the only way for us to realistically scale up recruitment is with a popular framework… No, we aren’t hiring." 💀
But it's not React, we are complicit, we are the ones prioritizing DevEx over UX. UX, if it even exists, is an afterthought for all but a small minority².
Anyhow, go read the full post.
¹ https://flaki.social/@flaki/111299266669596201
² https://flaki.social/@flaki/111357125611506375
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Schepp ("Christian "Schepp" Schaefer") wrote:
Have you also thought that CSS should offer a simple built-in way to hide elements visually, all the while exposing them in the accessibility tree? Like what we polyfill with (complicated) CSS utility classes of the likes of "sr-only" or "visually-hidden"? Me too! And I think `content-visibility` should take care of that in the future - with an additional fourth value. If you think so, too, leave your thumbs up here: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9579
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
dangoodin@infosec.exchange ("Dan Goodin") wrote:
I so, so, so don't want to drive any new car that can do this:
A federal appeals court refused to bring back a class action lawsuit alleging four auto manufacturers had violated Washington state’s privacy laws by using vehicles’ on-board infotainment systems to record and intercept customers’ private text messages and mobile phone call logs.
The court ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handing a big win to automakers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors, which are defendants in five related class action suits focused on the issue.
The plaintiffs had appealed a prior judge’s dismissal. But the appeals court ruled Tuesday that the interception and recording of mobile phone activity did not meet the Washington Privacy Act’s standard that a plaintiff must prove that “his or her business, his or her person, or his or her reputation” has been threatened.
A suit filed against Honda in 2021, argu[ed] that beginning in at least 2014 infotainment systems in the company’s vehicles began downloading and storing a copy of all text messages on smartphones when they were connected to the system.
An Annapolis, Maryland-based company, Berla Corporation, provides the technology to some car manufacturers but does not offer it to the general public, the lawsuit said. Once messages are downloaded, Berla’s software makes it impossible for vehicle owners to access their communications and call logs but does provide law enforcement with access, the lawsuit said.
Many car manufacturers are selling car owners’ data to advertisers as a revenue boosting tactic, according to earlier reporting by Recorded Future News. Automakers are exponentially increasing the number of sensors they place in their cars every year with little regulation of the practice.
https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy